Potato slicer



Dec. 24, 1946. p, wn- 2,413,160

POTATO SLICER Filed March 9, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet l ATI'ORNIYI Patented Dec. 24, 1946 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlC POTATO SLICER Paul Baker Witmer, Lancaster, Pa. Application March 9, 1945, Serial No. 581,877

2 Claims. 1

The invention relates to a slicing machine, and more especially to a vegetable slicer, as for example potatoes.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a slicer of this character, wherein whole potatoes can be placed therein for cutting the same into strips or for dicing such potatoes into cubes, to enable the French or otherwise frying thereof, the slicer being a convenient and most useful kitchen article, as it relieves a diilicult and hazardous task in preparing food for the cooking thereof.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a slicer of this character, wherein the cutting of the hand or fingers during the working thereof will be avoided. the whole vegetable being sliced with dispatch and the parts thereof uniformly out without the use of a hand knife.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a slicer of this character, which is simple in construction, thoroughly reliable and eflioient in operation, strong, durable, readily and easily handled, assures the saving of time for such work, affording a handy kitchen article, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the features of-construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accomapnying drawings, which show the preferred embodiment of the invention, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of the slicer constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view through the vegetable rack with the slicer blade frame in association therewith, and both in a horizontal plane.

Figure 4 is a top plan view showing the slicer blade frame straddling the vegetable rack for slab slicing operation.

Figure 5 is an end elevation thereof.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the slicer denoted generally at A comprises a base stand l0 having rising therefrom centrally of the same a substantially V-shaped rack with the side panels H thereof reversely angled to the vertical with respect to each other and an intermediate flat gutter bed H2 at the bottom of the rack, the said bed being in a plane with the base stand Ill. The

rack is adapted to receive therein a whole veg'etable, such as a potato B to to strips or eube formations.

These panels ,H at; one end of the V-shaped rack formation thereof have outwardly spaced be sliced, either inround stationary pivot or pintle bars 13, each.

being spaced by connecting unions 14 with an attaching plate 15 secured by fasteners It to the panel ll next thereto. The bars l3 are parallel For hinging the slicer frame l1 to one of the bars l3, one of the parts H! has fixed thereto a hook hinge leaf 2| which hooks under the bar l3 for the vertical swinging of the frame l1 from one end thereof toward and away from the panel H at either side of the rack, so that a vegetable therein can be conveniently sliced on manipulation of the said frame I1.

The other part! of the frame I! is fitted with a handle 22 for hand manipulation of the said frame in the slicing operation of the same. In Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings the frame I1 is shown hooked to one of the bars l3 for the hinged connection of this frame with one of the panels I l of the rack.

The panels II are formed with aligned slots 23 which extend entirely through the said panels in spaced parallel relation to each other and such slots are of a size to accommodate the blades I 8 of the frame I! when the latter is entirely detached from a panel H and arranged horizontally in interfitting relation to said slots 23 as shown in Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings, for cross-cutting of a vegetable seated in the crotch of the rack, the vegetable being indicated at 24 in Figure 5. "By interchanging the position of the frame I! in the several instances as before set forth the vegetable can be sliced lengthwise and crosswise thereof, for the cutting of the vegetable into stripsor in cube formations. The frame I! when placedin the horizontal position as shown in Figures 4 and 5 of the drawing will be held in the hands of a user and forced down through the rack and the vegetable for the slicing of the latter crosswise of the same, while in Figures 1, 2 and 3 the vegetable is placed as shown in said guano means whereby the frame may be swung into the V-shaped rack and in a direction oi right angles to the slots therein.

2. The invention as in claim 1 wherein the panels are reversely angled to the vertical with respect to each other, and a base is provided for mounting said rack thereon at the apex thereof, and an intermediate'iiatgutter bed is provided at the bottom or the rack in a plane with said PAUL BAKER WITMER.

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